Generating slides from spreadsheet data

Spreadsheets are a great utility in the business world, a virtual swiss army knife for what they can do with data, turning it into information. While presentations aren’t able to manipulate data in the way a spreadsheet can, they do take information & make it more visually appealing & more easily understood by human beings. In this video, Google engineer Wesley Chun shows you how to import spreadsheet data into presentations by using both the Google Sheets and Slides APIs. With these APIs, you can develop powerful apps that can automate this process between both types of apps so users no longer have to do this by hand.

Wait, is this seriously 100 lines of python to do what MS Office (and I'm pretty sure G-suite) does with just copy and paste? I love that I can write scripts to manipulate Google sheets and slides, but this seems like overkill for what should be a really simple thing.

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Robert Ross

9 months 25 days ago

You can copy data from google sheets and paste into google slides, too.